Parade Dragon Puppet - Students create a dragon puppet fro celebrating the Chinese New Year. A printable dragon face pattern is included source

Chinese New Year for Kids & Teachers - Fun for everyone at this first-rate resource including links to top holiday history and food sites, plus lesson plans for teachers...and festival-related crafts, coloring pages and clip art for the kids.

Chinese New Year - Great intro, with brief descriptions of traditional celebrations slated for all 15 days of the New Year or Spring Festival, plus more on traditional Chinese New Year foods, decorations, taboos and superstitions.

Chinese New Year - Wikipedia - A wonderful overview of the history, symbols, customs & foods surrounding the 15-day festivities including information on traditional gifts, flowers, fireworks, good luck / bad luck superstitions, how Chinese New Year is celebrated around the world, plus lots of related links and resources.

Lunar New Year in Taiwan - An engaging read, and beautifully illustrated with tales of the origins of the festival, holiday dishes, gift exchanges, the dragon and lion parade, rituals and superstitions.

Chinese New Year: Chinese Calendar - One stop browsing to learn more about the zodiac, the 12 animals that govern specific years, an online tutorial of Chinese calligraphy, a New Year banners how-to, New Year graphics, and lots more.

Teacher Planet - Chinese New Year - Great collection of fun activities and instructional how to's including dragon crafts, paper lanterns & garlands, scavenger hunt sheets, related lesson plans, plus links to clip art & history resources.

Chinese New Year Greetings, E-Cards - A colorful collection of animated and Flash greetings, Spring Festival, and Happy New Year cards.

Chinese New Year Clip Art - Check out kid-friendly images of zodiac signs, dragon parades and more.
 

A Brief Introduction to Chinese New Year Prints - Traditional, colorful graphics are used to decorate homes for the Lunar New Year. The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library provides an introduction and pictures from their exhibition. You can also find pictures of Yangliuqing New Year prints at China The Beautiful.

Animals of the Chinese Zodiac Grades K-2
In this lesson plan, students will learn about the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Celebrate Chinese New Year & More Grades Various
The New Year is a great time to motivate students to set new goals, expand their interests and develop an appreciation for others. As such, the Chinese New Year provides an excellent opportunity to create lessons that tie together standards in geography, art, reading, writing and social studies.

Celebrate the Chinese New Year Grades K-3
People Holding Hands® encourage children to celebrate the Chinese New Year with relevant props and reading materials that teach children about the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Encourages appreciation of Chinese culture through celebration.

Celebrations, Holidays and Customs
A wide range of Chinese New Years resources.

China
Printable worksheets, maps, crafts, and more.

Chinese Astrology
Find your sign!!

Chinese Calendar
Find helpful information about this special holiday.

Chinese Inventions and the Chinese New Year Grade 2
Second graders discover several of many Chinese inventions. They learn about contributions the Chinese have made in fields of technology, science, textiles, games and toys, and the arts. Then students prepare for and celebrate the Chinese New Year, China's biggest celebration. This is a three week unit.

Chinese New Year Grades 2-3
A lesson plan with great background information. You will need 3-5 class periods and it would be best if you could celebrate this during the actual Chinese New Year celebration time.

Chinese New Year
A great collection of resources from about.com. Includes arts, crafts, photos, and more.

Chinese New Year
Printable worksheets and crafts.

Chinese New Year
Traditions, decorations, food, and more.

Chinese New Year @ Kids Domain
Find great resources, crafts, predictions, and much more!

Chinese New Year Craft and History Grades PreK-6
The FREE Asian/Chinese New Year activity craft and holiday history lesson teach children
about our celebrations and traditions. Download these two printable pages with illustrations and
instructions for the Chinese Lantern craft activity plus background information for a holiday lesson plan.

Chinese New Year Graphics
Spring Festival

Chinese New Year Music Idea Grades 2-4
Students are to learn the song Go A Tin , which means "lantern bright." Lanterns bring good luck for the New Year in the Chinese tradition.

Chinese/Lunar New Year
Here's the on-line access to the Chinese/Lunar New Year's Day so that you can now plan for many celebrations or a study unit around the New Year theme or Zodiac theme.

Chinese New Year Parade
Find games, crafts, and fortune cookies.

The Chinese New Year Starts Today Grades Various
Lesson Plans, Web Links, and Text to use on January 29th.

CyberHunt
Brought to you by Scholastic. (A resource from 2005.)

Daily Life in Ancient China
A collection of resources and lessons to use in conjunction with the Chinese New Year.

Enchanted Learning Resources
Great resources, all updated for 2006!

Everyday Edit
A DOL activity from Education World that is about Chinese New Year.

Favorite Chinese New Year Sites
Resources that cover all aspects of the Chinese New Year.

Firecrackers
Students learn to make this fun and easy craft.

Happy Chinese New Year!
Learn about traditional crafts, recipes, and Chinese Astrology.

Happy Chinese New Year!
A scavenger hunt for students to complete. (It has not been updated for 2006, so you may have to do some modifications.)

Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year Grades K-2
In this lesson, the students will learn about the major differences between eastern and western dragons and discover why the eastern dragons are associated with the Chinese New Year. They will hear a story about how the dragons came to rule over the major rivers of China. In the second lesson they will learn about the New Years parade and discover that firecrackers are set off to drive off evil spirits, particularly one called Nian.

Parade Dragon Puppet
A fun mask and puppet that students can create for a Chinese New Year parade.